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Originally Posted by BPt111
Crime rose rapidly since 1970s then 1980s to mid 1990s was crack era so it have highest crime rates you have to combine environmental lead levels peaked, economic slow down, white flight it hit the minority community the hardest. Environmental lead block the neural receptors that are needed to let the brain assimilate information. Baby boomers was in their teen years back then and world war 2 veterans coming home so they was depressed and jobless so you have increase in drug use and bigger demand. The great migration from down south people looking for work and factories jobs was getting ship overseas so they wasn't much jobs around so people turn to crime.
Lack of 2 parent households due to drugs and WW2. The economy wasn't growing fast enough. , Uncontrolled immigration, drugs, lack of political will to deal with community issues and root of it.
Something happen in late 1960s with baby boomers and urban areas
Chicago bad areas is not gentrifying like NYC and LA
Chicago torn down their projects so it spread gangs closer to their rivals
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We pretty much have these same issues now, save for the lead theory. Although I feel like the lead theory might be blown out of proportion.
But we have some of the same problems still and we have a new set of problems in combination. The economy is not looking good. White flight or money flight is not guranteed not to happen, history repeats. If something happened before it could happen again, but just in a different manner.
Well paying blue collar factory jobs are still gone. Plenty of drug use today, probably more these days effecting a wide range of people, not just certain demographics.
I seen alot of articles with homicides commited by people of all ages, so it doesn't necessarily have to be the typical teenage young adults.
Lack of 2 parent households due to drugs and WW2. The economy wasn't growing fast enough. , Uncontrolled immigration, drugs, lack of political will to deal with community issues and root of it.
We still have these same issues in a slightly different way.
As you mentioned, Chicagos bad areas are not gentrifying, so why would Chicago homicides drop back to 450-500?
Also gentrifications doesn't mean it's permanant niether. The same flight that happened in the 60's can most definitly happen again in the future.
And it doesn't necessarily have to be just black vs black homicides to raise the rates. The white homicide rate can just as easily rise aswell as our societies culture keeps spiraling downward as a whole.
White people had very high rates of violence in the wild western days, prohibition style and beyond. It's only a recent modern phenomenon where the white people havn't gotten crazy like that en mass.
Now add all or most of these issues we currently have and combine it with that fact that our society as a whole is becoming much more extreme. The political system is becoming very extreme. The manner in how people treat each other on a daily basis is becoming a bit more extreme.
When bad things happen (especially in mass as a collective), people tend to remember this and adapt.
When one hurts a woman, she will remember... it is the same concept with everything organic.
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